Openfire supports 'contact list sharing'. With this feature, all members of a shared group can be made part of the contact list of a defined group of people. To which people this applies can be configured for each shared group:
no-one
members of the group itself
members of one or more other groups
everyone
There currently is a bug in Openfire, that affect the latter two scenario's. The contact list information is not correct in some cases.
This appears to be a cache-related issue, as:
the problem is not 100% reproducible
clearing of caches appears to alleviate the problem.
Maybe the issue originated from the older change in 3.8.0 but it was intensified by some other change in 4.1.0. I think applying this fix and letting affecting users try it out is better than nothing.
Katelyn Schiesser January 29, 2017 at 8:46 PM
I'm also seeing this issue in 4.1.1 - I am able to temporarily resolve it by going to Edit Group -> Contact List (Roster) Sharing, and then selecting 'All Users' - saving - then going back and selecting 'The following groups:' ... putting it back to how it was.
This seems to force a client update and the groups show up.
Openfire supports 'contact list sharing'. With this feature, all members of a shared group can be made part of the contact list of a defined group of people. To which people this applies can be configured for each shared group:
no-one
members of the group itself
members of one or more other groups
everyone
There currently is a bug in Openfire, that affect the latter two scenario's. The contact list information is not correct in some cases.
This appears to be a cache-related issue, as:
the problem is not 100% reproducible
clearing of caches appears to alleviate the problem.